Flipping Freezing F(ryan)day

Lady Lainey's view July 2012

Welcome to Flipping Freezing F(ryan)day here in the North east of Blighty. Not a great start to the weekend but not to worry, tomorrow is another day.And tomorrow is more snow apparently! Oh Joy!!! Now where did I put my Hunters? yep right by the drawbridge ready for every excursion out of the 'The towers'!

Yorkshire are still out in the sun in Barbados and are taking on Nottinghamshire today with His Royal Ryanness  facing his old team. There will be more on this tomorrow. #COYT

Now lets get down to what has been happening in NZ. OR do we really want to know.......well England opted to bowl thinking that the wicket has some pace and bounce in it. Nopey nopey no! There was no life in it which helped NZ to a close of play total on the first day of 250-1. Peter Fulton hitting his maiden test century.
Finn took the only wicket of the first day, with the highly overrated ( in my opinion)Monty Panesar struggling to achieve any turn in his bowling. NZ captain Brendon Mc Cullum did say that he would have opted to bowl first if they had won the toss but I think he was just being a good sport  ( and laughing at England!!! :-)

Reading the English press all the 'hacks' saying that FIGJAMS loss is a blow to this match...................yeah well it has been down to the bowlers today and look how well that went. Also that 'FIGJAM' was desperate to play.........................with a knee injury!!! get serious, or was he only paid if he played???? most of them take the time to sit on the bench if they fracture an eyelash or heaven forbid, break a nail.

Well lets see what has been going on across the sea in Australia where Mickey Arthur has been defending his decision to drop players. He still defends the choice made and said he would do it again if he had to. moral of the story to all cricketers 'do your homework'.

Good news that the BBC are going to provide live match commentaries on every county match this season. WOOHOOOO that is flipping brill and means that  'Jo Bling' ( aka Job the Jolly) and I can listen to Durham getting trounced and Yorkshire winning!!!


News from Spain that Sir Bradley  is in overall third place after stage three's summit finish. Come on Wiggo!!


Footy news

Birmingham are at Crystal Palace tonight

Leeds take on Ipswich  away tomorrow
Sheffield United are home to Brentford tomorrow too


Good luck to them all ( but mostly to The Blades!)

NORTH EAST WEATHER WATCH

Cold, cold, and a chance of getting colder. No snow yet but 3in forecast for today and tomorrow possibly more. So sorry to be so flipping boring but I am jolly well sick of it now! So thermos in the car along with the spade and a couple of blankets. Better to be prepared.

So have a great day and Dame Didi hope that  lunch was a success yesterday.

HMMMM someone stealing Lady Laineys position!!!